Barbara Kingsolver
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 Barbara Kingsolver facts

• She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood
• Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels
• Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally
• Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments
• Each of her books published since 1993 has been on the New York Times Best Seller list
• Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C
• Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2011, UK's Orange Prize for Fiction 2010, for The Lacuna, and the National Humanities Medal
• She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize
• In 2000, Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize to support "literature of social change"